Trump Proposes Cuts To Climate And Clean Energy Programs

Trump s proposal envisions sweeping cuts that would neuter most of the agency s critical energy programs.

Trump proposes cuts to climate and clean energy programs.

A flag with the epa logo flies in front of the environmental protection agency. Trump s budget proposal seeks to eliminate nearly all international investments in climate change and clean energy cutting vital programs that protect the most vulnerable from climate impacts. Under the trump proposal. Research and development in clean cars and renewable energy would be slashed more than 70 percent nasa climate programs would be cut and epa would lose 31 percent.

How americans think about climate change in six maps. One of the deepest cuts would slash funding for the department. The trump administration released its proposed 2019 budget on monday. Trump who rejects the scientific consensus regarding climate change and repeatedly vowed to zero out federal spending on clean energy research and development r d as a candidate proposed similarly dramatic cuts to eere s budget in both his fiscal year 2018 and fiscal year 2019 proposals.

The energy portion focuses on an all of the above strategy and proposes cuts to several clean energy programs. President trump s proposed budget for fiscal 2021 calls for significant reductions to environmental programs at federal agencies including a 26 percent cut to the environmental protection.